That's how I read it too. To people who haven't worked with metrics at scale though there is some good information and it's worth reading.
It blows my mind that businesses are willing to outsource metrics. When I worked at Amazon it was trivial to estimate the next quarter's results from the app metrics. Naturally this meant we were subject to trading restrictions.
If a monitoring company ever starts applying Google/Facebook style ethics with regards to exploiting the data their customers give them, they will be in an incredibly powerful position.
> It blows my mind that businesses are willing to outsource metrics.
It makes sense at various scales compared to hiring, training, maintaining infrastructure, handling incidents, etc. related to your own metrics solution.
It blows my mind that businesses are willing to outsource metrics. When I worked at Amazon it was trivial to estimate the next quarter's results from the app metrics. Naturally this meant we were subject to trading restrictions.
If a monitoring company ever starts applying Google/Facebook style ethics with regards to exploiting the data their customers give them, they will be in an incredibly powerful position.